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    In Search of Bisco: A Memoir
    In Search of Bisco: A Memoir
    In Search of Bisco: A Memoir
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    In Search of Bisco: A Memoir

    By Erskine Caldwell

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    In this travelogue and memoir, groundbreaking novelist Erskine Caldwell looks back at a life lived in the troubled South
    Five decades removed from his own Southern childhood, novelist Erskine Caldwell sets out on a journey to find an old friend—a friend lost to him through the culture of segregation. As Caldwell follows a trail through Georgia, South Carolina, and much of the Deep South in search of his black childhood friend Bisco, his interviews with white and black Americans expose a range of attitudes that are tragic, if not surprising.   Published first in the mid-1960s just as the South was undergoing a radical transformation by freedom marches and sit-ins, In Search of Bisco offers a heartfelt account of the civil rights movement by one of the region’s fiercest critics and most prominent sons.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9781453217221
    In Search of Bisco: A Memoir
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    Erskine Caldwell

    Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987) is the author of twenty-five novels, numerous short stories, and a dozen nonfiction titles, most depicting the harsh realities of life in the American South during the Great Depression. His books have been published in forty-five languages and have sold tens of millions of copies, with God’s Little Acre alone selling more than fourteen million. Caldwell’s graphic realism and unabashedly political themes earned him the scorn of critics and censors early in his career, though by the end of his life he was acknowledged as a giant of American literature.

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